Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, has said President Muhammadu Buhari must be held accountable for all the crimes committed by herdsmen in the country, because the president has failed to hold the Fulani doing damages in the country accountable.
Speaking on Tuesday while reacting to the recent killing of residents in a fresh attack where suspected Fulani herdsmen invaded Abegana village, the host community to one of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Benue State, a visibly upset Ortom said he knew Buhari was the President of Fulani, and his body language has finally confirmed it.
The governor stated that “we are being overstretched and the people are fed up. We all voted President Buhari. He must not continue to be aloof. He must tell us where we are going in this country. This is too much.
"The body language of the president shows that he is the president of the Fulani people. I have written to him on this, yet he has not done anything about it. We are now in a Banana Republic. This falsehood must stop.
“The president must address us and not him sending Garba Shehu to address us. It is better for me not to be alive than to see this kind of shame. Governors must rise to ensure that state of emergency is declared on insecurity. This government is not being proactive. The president must convene a security summit before it is too late,” the governor said.
Governor Ortom, who decried the incessant killings of people in the state by suspected Fulani herdsmen, confirmed that 70 people were killed in three local government areas of the state — Makurdi, Guma and Gwer West — in the past two weeks and seven were killed at Abegana IDP camp.
“What is happening now, to me, is very clear; Mr President is just working for these Fulanis to take over the whole country. The body language, the action and inaction of Mr President shows that he is only the President of Fulani people; I have known this.
"If we have a president who gave the security agencies order to shoot at sight, whosoever is having AK-47 and the Minister of Defence came out to say that they cannot shoot at sight; who is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces?” he queried.
He reiterated that the activities of herdsmen in the country must be condemned and people should come together to hold the president accountable, adding that “he has taken the oath of office to secure the country and provide security for lives and property; this is unacceptable, this cannot continue.”